Fikile Mvinjelwa
Fikile Mvinjelwa (?-) is an opera singer.
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Biography
Training
Career
He has sung at the Metropolitan Opera in New York (2009-2010 season), Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Spoleto Festival, amongst numerous engagements.
Mvinjelwa’s many oratorio performances include the TRC (South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission) Rewind Cantata by Phillip Miller at the Brooklyn Festival in Prospect Park, NY and at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
Mvinjelwa has sung major roles in operas such as La Bohème Noir (1997), Fidelio (2004), Rigoletto (2017, Cape Town Opera), Nabucco, Scarpia in Tosca, Macbeth (2007), Faust, Porgy in Porgy and Bess, Orestes in Elektra, Zurga in The Pearl Fishers, Germont in La Traviata, Amonasro in Aida, Alfio in Cavalleria Rusticana and Tonio in I Pagliacci for Cape Town Opera.
Mvinjelwa is also an advocate of new and local opera and has sung a number of roles in contemporary South African operas such as:
- Enoch in Roelof Temmingh’s opera Enoch, Prophet of God (1995)
- Sacred Bones (1997)
- Buchuland (1998)
- Love and Green Onions (2001)
- King Dinuzulu in Princess Magogo kaDinuzulu by Mzilikazi Khumalo (2002)
- the story teller (Griot) in Masque (2005)
- Mpande in Ziyankomo and the Forbidden Fruit (2012)
Awards
He was a recipient of the Standard Bank Young Artist Awards in 2001.
Sources
Hilde Roos. 2010. 'Opera Production in the Western Cape: Strategies in Search of Indigenisation'. Unpublished PhD thesis. Stellenbosch University.
'Opera: a dark and stormy take on Verdi'. Weekend Special. 31 January 2017.
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